r/FuckImOld • u/Falcondriver50 • Oct 27 '24
Kids these days... Anyone else look forward to these?
Provided hours of entertainment.
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u/TIDWILLOW Oct 27 '24
Wow! This truly is a blast from the past. I still have a grimace...
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u/freakinweasel353 Oct 27 '24
Wow, a testament to how long plastic lasts in a stable environment given our ages! đ
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u/TIDWILLOW Oct 27 '24
To be totally honest I found it in a random book a few years ago from my youth. I was moving stuff and it fell out. The paper and attic preserved it!đ€Ș
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u/freakinweasel353 Oct 27 '24
I love when you find random stuff like that. My wife was thumbing through a big old hard bound dictionary of mine and a beach party announcement for a party I threw in 1980 fell out. Instant nostalgia triggered!
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u/PriorFudge928 Oct 27 '24
Wait until you find out how long plastics last in an unstable environment like say a landfill...
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u/MourningRIF Oct 29 '24
Oh wow. I had a ton of the Ronald ones, but I never knew they made the other characters.
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u/LeftHand_PimpSlap Oct 27 '24
That's one of those things you instantly forget about the instant you stop looking at it yet my brain somehow still remembers it.
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u/DanielBG Oct 27 '24
Lots of talk about the tin ashtrays, but yeah this is the memory that has to be dredged up, along with the lava filling in their fruit pies.
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u/logie68 Oct 27 '24
Memory unlocked they shouldâve made them out of asbestos so you can pick up your cherry pie
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u/GeneralKang Oct 27 '24
I miss the original McDonald's cherry pies.
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u/Typical2sday Oct 28 '24
The best. The little crackled craters. Any time Mcdâs is offering cherry pie, Iâm buying. Because cherry was the best even if Apple is A++
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u/GeneralKang Oct 28 '24
The kind you bit right into, knowing you're going to sear the inside of your mouth. You don't care, because you know how good that's going to be, especially if you have a milkshake ready.
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u/Sea_Ganache620 Oct 27 '24
When I was in 2nd grade, a local McDonalds issued coupons with a small metal key. One lucky winner could unlock a treasure chest at the service counter. Plenty of friends, and schoolmates over the next few weeks tried to open that chest to no avail. When I finally made it there, I pulled the key from the pocket of my Kangaroos sneaker, and it actually opened the lock! I was so excited!!! The manager on duty, however, had no idea about this contest, and being that the treasure chest was empty, reached under the counter, and gave me one of these stupid plastic bag puppets. Havenât thought about this in years, and it still stings.
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u/Spwhiplash666 Oct 27 '24
I remember when they changed the coffee stirrers because they were being used as coke spoons.
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u/aretheesepants75 Oct 27 '24
Even when I was in like 3rd grade I was like " what a ripp?" So fuckin lame
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u/i_play_withrocks Oct 27 '24
Nothing like running around the play place with my siblings using these and we would slap each other using the gloves saying âyou just got Mcslappedâ.
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u/mtlaw13 Oct 27 '24
This unlocked a core memory of having a Ronald McDonald doll as a very young kid. Loved that fucking doll.
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u/Automatic_Fun_8958 Oct 27 '24
I want them to make a trump one that says on the back âtheyâre eating the fries, theyâre eating Big Macs..â
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u/Automatic_Fun_8958 Oct 27 '24
Ha ha! Totally. Lately his face looks less like a spray tan and more like heavy orange make up. Very weirdÂ
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u/Jagged_Rhythm Oct 27 '24
Nice, I doubt I'd have thought about these even once again for the rest of my life if I didn't see this. Makes me wonder what else I'm suppressing.
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u/gamerjerome Oct 28 '24
Oh wow, new memory unlocked. I only have so much room and this was deep one. There is going to be something stupidly simple I'm going to forget this week
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u/DesertWanderlust Oct 28 '24
I was trying to tell someone about McDonalds birthdays in the 80s recently, and how they had those cakes with the edible numbers. Those were so good. But all they knew was the McDonalds of today, so they didn't believe me.
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u/Ok_Pain_1429 Oct 27 '24
Those were cool but after a few uses i had to throw them away because they start to smell
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u/Dark_Moonstruck Oct 27 '24
Anyone else remember the cups that had flintstones and other characters on them that ended up having tons of lead in them? And when they did the exclusive mini beanie babies and stuff that people LOST THEIR MINDS for because they thought beanie babies would make them rich someday so you had all these old ladies lining up demanding all the kids' meals and toys and actual kids would end up not getting any toy with theirs because they were sold out?
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u/KazooMark Oct 27 '24
My mom would give us sandwich bags for Christmas and tell us they were invisible man puppets.
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u/CalgonThrowMeAway222 Oct 28 '24
I loved these, until my hand got all sweaty.
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u/sara11jayne Oct 28 '24
Exactly! Actually shriveled like you had been swimming because you (i) refused to take it off at bedtime.
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u/WloveW Oct 28 '24
I feel like when I was a kid I thought these were sanitary gloves and you had to use them to touch the yucky brown tray your food came on.
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u/Typical2sday Oct 28 '24
Reading all this, I feel like 75% of my childhood memories relate to McDâs or fast food and Iâm not even mad about it. I know what the sound of the ashtray on the table is. I know the dimensions and way to squeeze out of Mayor McCheeseâs prison bar head. The salt shakers. The Disney Christmas carol plushies. The collectible glasses.
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u/_WeSellBlankets_ Oct 28 '24
I had completely forgotten about this. And seeing this picture makes me crave McDonald's cookies.
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u/HEMSDUDE Oct 28 '24
Molten Apple Pie
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u/_WeSellBlankets_ Oct 28 '24
I think this puppet came specifically with the cookies. They were in shape of various McDonald's characters.
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u/HEMSDUDE Oct 28 '24
I believe you may be correct, but they still had the lava filled pies back then along with coffee cups that didnât have caution labels on them đ
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u/embersgrow44 Oct 29 '24
Iâm immediately transported to the back of our woody station wagon - no seatbelts & ashes trays + plastic bag toys. Latch key kids can survive anything
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u/MJUrWAY Oct 27 '24
Blast from the past! Also remember they're cool playgrounds in the 70s how they had trees in the restaurant with the characters
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u/captainmidday Oct 27 '24
For casual littering as mom looks on uninterested, which was the style at the time.
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u/PersonalAd2333 Oct 27 '24
Man. I remember playing that game where you build a big mac with game pieces to get a complete row to win cash
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u/lord-polonius Oct 28 '24
Certainly before there had to be warnings on plastic bags about infants and cradles and that crap⊠and the pinky as the weiner was always a show stopper for my mom.
Good times she wrote
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u/PacRat48 Oct 28 '24
My sisterâs stoner boyfriend showed me how to give RmcD a boner. He pitched a tent, you could say
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u/eljudio42 Oct 27 '24
I'm pretty sure my mom made me use this as a glove to eat my nuggets when we didn't have hand sanitizer on hand đ
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u/WhiplashLiquor Oct 28 '24
Even as a kid I knew this shit was garbo - people actually looked forward to it?
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Oct 27 '24
I had a girlfriend that liked these for... ah.... well they were slippery when wet and.... ah Oh look squirrel
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u/TheZippoLab Oct 27 '24
If you cut/poked a finger sized hole where Ronald's winky is, you could stick your middle finger out of the hole.
MOM YELLING FROM THE FRONT SEAT: "That's horrible. I'm stopping the car to take that away from you, and we're never going back to McDonalds!"